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  • Playing against Nature

    Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World

    par Seth Stein, Jerome Stein ...
    Collections series Wiley Works
    Defending society against natural hazards is a high-stakes game of chance against nature, involving tough decisions. How should a developing nation allocate its budget between building schools for towns without ones or making existing schools earthquake-resistant? Does it make more sense to build levees to protect against floods, or to prevent development in the areas at risk? Would more lives be ... En savoir plus

    $74.99 CAD

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  • Tambora

    The Eruption That Changed the World

    par Gillen D’Arcy Wood ...
    A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD

  • Eruption

    The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

    par Steve Olson ...
    A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester).For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Million Death Quake

    The Science of Predicting Earth's Deadliest Natural Disaster

    par Roger Musson ...
    Collections series MacSci
    "A lay-reader-friendly guide to seismology fundamentals, from early theories about earthquake origins to the workings of contemporary plate tectonics. . . . Musson . . .[keeps] readers absorbed with clear explanations and colorful anecdotes about one of nature's most calamitous forces" ( Booklist ).For centuries, Californians and the Japanese have known that they were at risk of catastrophic ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History

    par MARIE JONES, Dr. John M. Savino ...
    A revised and updated comprehensive examination of the supervolcanic eruption of Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia over 75,000 years ago, and how it changed human genetic history by causing a population bottleneck, written by best-selling author Marie D. Jones and her father, the late geophysicist Dr. John M. Savino, Ph.D. The book describes what a supervolcano is, how they form, where they are located ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Why Does It Happen?: Earthquakes and Volcanoes

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    par Baby Professor ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Why Does It Happen
    Earthquakes and volcano eruptions are natural disasters that are best faced prepared. Through this picture book, a child goes through multi-sensory learning that makes it easier to understand the intensity of quakes and volcanoes. With a picture book, a child gets to hear the stories, see the pictures, feel and even smell the pages. These create memories that make lessons stick. Grab a copy today! ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth

    The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart of Our World

    par Dr David Whitehouse ...
    The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine.Over 3,000 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size of Mars awaits us.Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere - an iron-clad world held within a metal sea and unattached to anything above.At the earth's core is the history of our planet ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Physics

    Understanding the Properties of Matter and Energy

    par John Murphy ...
    Collections series The Study of Science
    Without physics, modern life would not exist. Instead of electric light, we would read by the light of candles. We couldn't build skyscrapers. We could not possibly bridge rivers, much less build a jet or interplanetary craft. Computers and smartphones would be unimaginable. Physics is concerned with the most fundamental aspects of matter and energy and how they interact to make the physical ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Last Volcano

    par John Dvorak ...
    John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early scientific study of volcanoes and the life of the man who pioneered the field, Thomas Jaggar. Educated at Harvard, Jaggar went to the Caribbean after Mount Pelee exploded in 1902, killing more than 26,000 people. Witnessing the destruction and learning about the horrible deaths these people had suffered, Jaggar vowed to ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • On Shaky Ground

    America's Earthquake Alert

    par John J. Nance ...
    A "gripping" **look at the massive disasters that could strike at any moment, from a New York Times–bestselling author ( San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle).Far beneath the earth's surface, great tectonic plates grind against one another with incredible pressure that must—inevitably—be released. Earthquakes manifest with little warning, upending buildings, shattering infrastructure, and unleashing ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Earth Materials

    Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology

    par Cornelis Klein, Anthony Philpotts ...
    This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed specifically for one-semester courses, it is beautifully illustrated to explain the key concepts in mineralogy and petrology. This edition has been fully ... En savoir plus

    $69.99 CAD

  • Watching Vesuvius

    A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy

    par Sean Cocco ...
    Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this ambitious and wide-ranging study. Humanists began to make pilgrimages to Vesuvius during the early Renaissance to experience its beauty and ... En savoir plus

    $61.59 CAD